During this visit, you should work with one or more groups of students if you haven't already, and observe your teacher doing the same. For this journal entry, describe your teacher's teaching style. What type of relationships with students does he or she nurture in his or her classes? How do students perceive that power is distributed in the classes? Does this vary within or across the different classes the teacher has? Cite examples from your observations to support your inferences. Remember to reflect on what style of teaching you will gravitate toward and the how you want to be perceived by your students.
My teacher is very laid back with his ecology and biology classes because he has had most, if not all, of these students before. Many students took these classes because Mr. Zabel taught them. Many students are in both his classes. Because these classes are considered electives and not mandatory so Mr. Zabel focuses on a lot of group work where the students are finding their own information. He gives background notes and then releases the students into their groups and lets them complete the project on their own.
As the students are working on their projects he floats around from group to group checking on the groups and gathering missing work from those who had NECAPs. He is there for his students and it's a weird thing to realize after being in college for so many years, I'm used to missing class and then being out of luck for missed quizzes but he is available for his students whether it be during lunch or after school.
In his elective classes Mr. Zabel is a lot more laid back than his Bio I classes. In his his Bio I classes he is much more about the material and vocal and having the students learn through his teaching. However, his elective classes have projects where they find information on their own and complete labs almost every day. I's a different dynamic but I see why he does it.
I'm a lot like Mr. Zabel because I want the students to come to me if they need help. I never want them to feel like I'll yell or be mad because they don't understand something. I remember having teachers in high school that I would never go to for help because they made me feel so bad. I worked with a couple students in his Bio II classes on the computers and after I helped one student the others didn't even hesitate and called me over to their groups to do the same. I don't want to be seen as someone who talks at them all day but instead talks with them and asks questions that they need to think about. I want them to understand why biology is important and how it affects them. In the lab they are doing now some of them understand and I can't wait to do that once I start teaching them.
My teacher is very laid back with his ecology and biology classes because he has had most, if not all, of these students before. Many students took these classes because Mr. Zabel taught them. Many students are in both his classes. Because these classes are considered electives and not mandatory so Mr. Zabel focuses on a lot of group work where the students are finding their own information. He gives background notes and then releases the students into their groups and lets them complete the project on their own.
As the students are working on their projects he floats around from group to group checking on the groups and gathering missing work from those who had NECAPs. He is there for his students and it's a weird thing to realize after being in college for so many years, I'm used to missing class and then being out of luck for missed quizzes but he is available for his students whether it be during lunch or after school.
In his elective classes Mr. Zabel is a lot more laid back than his Bio I classes. In his his Bio I classes he is much more about the material and vocal and having the students learn through his teaching. However, his elective classes have projects where they find information on their own and complete labs almost every day. I's a different dynamic but I see why he does it.
I'm a lot like Mr. Zabel because I want the students to come to me if they need help. I never want them to feel like I'll yell or be mad because they don't understand something. I remember having teachers in high school that I would never go to for help because they made me feel so bad. I worked with a couple students in his Bio II classes on the computers and after I helped one student the others didn't even hesitate and called me over to their groups to do the same. I don't want to be seen as someone who talks at them all day but instead talks with them and asks questions that they need to think about. I want them to understand why biology is important and how it affects them. In the lab they are doing now some of them understand and I can't wait to do that once I start teaching them.